[Commlist] mediastudies.press book manuscript submission call

A reminder that the annual proposal window of mediastudies.presss, the 
scholar-led and nonprofit OA publisher, will close on July 31, 2026. 
Authors are encouraged to submit a proposal for review.

mediastudies.press welcomes submissions from scholars across media, 
communication, and film studies. We currently publish in five series:

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    Media Manifold series — /monographs and other book-length works of
    contemporary media scholarship/

    https://www.mediastudies.press/media-manifold-series

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    Public Domain series — /reprints of neglected classics, in new
    critical editions anchored by framing introductions/

    https://www.mediastudies.press/public-domain-series

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    Open Reader series — /themed collections of openly licensed, public
    domain, and linked materials curated and introduced by leading experts/

    https://www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-series

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    History of Media Studies series — /monographs and other original
    scholarly works centered on history of media, communication, and
    film studies/

    https://www.mediastudies.press/history-of-media-studies

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    Goffman in the Open series — /public domain texts, monographs,
    translations, and other original scholarly works centered on the
    Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman
    /https://www.mediastudies.press/goffman-in-the-open-series

We are small and artisanal by mission, and aim to publish just five 
books a year. Given the volume of proposals that we receive—and with our 
production schedule in mind—we maintain an annual proposal window (1 
June to 31 July), for the review of manuscripts slated for publication 
in the following calendar year. You are welcome to send informal queries 
outside these dates, but our general practice is to only consider 
proposals within the annual window. Each year, we review proposals with 
an initial reply by August 30, with the aim to conduct peer review of 
proposals of expressed interest by the end of October.

mediastudies.press is an open-access publisher for the media and 
communication studies fields. The press is nonprofit and scholar-led. We 
publish living works, with iterative updates stitched into our process. 
And we encourage multi-modal submissions that reflect the mediated 
environments our authors study.

Publishing with mediastudies.press is free on principle. Our aim is to 
demonstrate, on a small scale, an open-access publishing model supported 
by libraries rather than author fees, via the Open Book Collective. Open 
access for readers, we believe, should not be traded for new barriers to 
authorship.

All our published works are rigorously peer-reviewed, and receive 
unusual editorial attention. We prioritize discoverability through 
careful metadata, library records, and directory listings. As a 
scholar-run operation, our publicity outreach is uncommonly informed by 
the fields’ intellectual contours.

We kindly ask that proposals be submitted as a single PDF, via this URL: 
https://www.mediastudies.press/proposal-form 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/proposal-form>


Proposals should include the following elements, in addition to at least 
one draft chapter:

 1.

    Proposed title and subtitle

 2.

    A 500- to 1000-word narrative description of the book

 3.

    Short bios of author(s) and/or editor(s)

 4.

    Proposed series (see above)

 5.

    Tentative table of contents, preferably annotated

 6.

    Estimated word count

 7.

    Multi-modal components, if any

 8.

    Status of the book (i.e., expectation of completion date, the
    portion now complete)

 9.

    At least one draft chapter

If you have any questions at all about the proposal process for books, 
please contact us, Dave Park, co-director of mediastudies.press
and Jeff Pooley, co-director of mediastudies.press at 
press@mediastudies.press <mailto:press@mediastudies.press>




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